League of Legends Releases Newest Champion: Udyr

Riot Games, the developer and publisher of the highly acclaimed PC game League of Legends, has just released details about its newest champion, Udyr the the Animal Spirit.

Udyr is a savage warrior, channeling animalistic powers from the Ionian Zodiac. Do not attempt to reason with Udyr. The song of his bestial rage is all he hears.

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Udyr, the Animal Spirit Champion Type: Fighter

Lore: The mystics of Ionia delve into many mysteries, seeking out the very depths of spirituality. While many of them devote themselves to the pursuit of peace and light, there are those who walk different paths. Some pursue the beauty of perpetual sorrow, some the excitement of darkness, some the vitality of the primal. To this latter group belongs Udyr, a man who has devoted his life to harnessing the spirit of the beast within him. On the day of his sixteenth birthday, Udyr bade his family farewell and struck a path to the east, determined to shed the trappings of "civilized" society. Freed of the shackles of cultural expectations, Udyr tapped into a well of instinctual ferocity he hadn't known before. His feral senses roiled to the surface and he let them overcome him. It was at this point in his life that Udyr truly lost his humanity, and he reveled in its absence. Poachers and travelers who entered his territory did so at terrible risk, and were rarely seen thereafter. Udyr then sought to harness the beast within him, and as such he discovered true enlightenment in the Hirana Monastery. The monks there taught him to commune with the primal spirits of nature, releasing the beast within. Now, wearing the pelt of a vicious dire wolf that he killed with his own bare teeth, Udyr has come to unleash his fury on the Fields as a champion of Ionia.

Udyr is a savage warrior, channeling animalistic powers from the Ionian Zodiac. Do not attempt to reason with Udyr. The song of his bestial rage is all he hears.

Abilities: Udyr is a martial arts champion based around 4 fighting stances: Tiger, Turtle, Bear, and Phoenix. Each form has an activation effect and a persistent effect. The persistent effects ensure that each stance fulfills a different role, while the activation effects encourage Udyr to constantly switch as the battlefield changes. Udyr is a champion with 4 basic abilities, and no ultimate (a groundbreaking skillset in the League of Legends!), allowing players to choose which abilities are worth maxing out based on how the game has evolved.

Tiger Stance:

Activation: Udyr's next attack will deal three times his attack damage over 3 seconds.